TinyBuild today announced that it has joined the London Stock Exchange AIM market under the ticker TBLD. The company is valued at £340m, kaing it the largest US company to ever go public on the market.
The company is best known for its Hello Neighbor series of games. Although with seven development studios and 23 projects in development there’s an awful lot more to it than that. Most recently it has seen big success with Totally Reliable Delivery Service, which has clocked up 14m downloads across all platforms to date.
Three of studios were acquired recently, with We’re Five Games, Hungry Couch and Moon Mouse joining the company. The company is concentrating on titles that have appeal to influencers and their audiences, although that’s quite broad still, from physics-based sandboxes with emergent fun, through to tense stealth titles with lots of hidden secrets to uncover.
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TinyBuild has gone public on the London Stock Exchange s AIM market with a valuation of $474 million.
According to a press release announcing the IPO, TinyBuild has become the largest U.S. company to ever go public on the AIM market.
The Seattle-based studio is known for publishing titles including Party Hard,
Totally Reliable Delivery Service, and
Hello Neighbor (which itself has become a successful franchise with multiple spin-offs, a TV show pilot, a board game, and a book series all out in the world.)
TinyBuild has launched over 40 titles since being founded in 2013, and currently has 23 more projects in development.
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Fine-tuning
Some of the most common areas for fine-tuning are the loading times and memory footprint of the game. These are areas where a PC can have a noticeable advantage over consoles. Games, especially smaller PC only titles, often do not need to pay a lot of attention to the amount of memory that they use, or the time it takes to load a map. Most game PCs these days have fast hard drives or SSDs, and a lot more internal memory than is available on the current generation of console platforms.
Loading times can easily fluctuate two to five times depending on both disk and CPU usage. While 30 seconds is probably fine for a PC game, one-to-two-minute loading times will not provide a great player experience.
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